Patents by Inventor Christopher Scelonge

Christopher Scelonge has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230357788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plants having increased resistance or tolerance to pathogens. Such plants have reduced expression levels of CPL1 and/or ERF922. The invention further relates to methods for producing such plants, as well as methods for identifying such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Daniel Fabian STIRNWEIS, Dietmar STAHL, Urs Konrad FISCHER, Christopher SCELONGE
  • Publication number: 20230212595
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for introducing transgenic target sites for Site Specific Integration (SSI) and/or polynucleotides of interest into at least one double-strand break target site of a double-strand-break inducing agent in a genomic window of a plant genome. Also provided are methods and compositions for producing a complex trait locus in a genomic window of a plant comprising at least one transgenic target site for site specific integration integrated in at least double-strand-break target site. The double-strand-break target site can be, but is not limited to, a target site for a zinc finger endonuclease, an engineered endonuclease, a meganuclease, a TALENs and/or a Cas endonuclease. The genomic window of said plant can comprise at least one genomic locus of interest such as a trait cassette, a transgene, a mutated gene, a native gene, an edited gene or a site-specific integration (SSI) target site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicants: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: ANDREW MARK CIGAN, HUIRONG GAO, ZHAN-BIN LIU, JASDEEP MUTTI, DEAN PODLICH, CHRISTOPHER SCELONGE
  • Patent number: 9926571
    Abstract: A variety of methods and compostions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excize a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: William Gordon-Kamm, Keith Lowe, David J Peterson, Christopher Scelonge, Grace M St Clair, Bing-Bing Wang
  • Publication number: 20140237681
    Abstract: A variety of methods and compostions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excise a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: William Gordon-Kamm, Keith Lowe, David J. Peterson, Christopher Scelonge, Grace M. St Clair, Bing-Bing Wang
  • Publication number: 20070271628
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding WUS polypeptides. The invention further provides isolated WUS polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of using the polynucleotides to modulate the level of WUS, improve transformation efficiency, to stimulate plant cell growth, including stem cells, to stimulate organogenesis, to stimulate somatic embryogenesis, to induce apomixis, and to provide a positive selection for cells comprising the polynucleotide. The invention also relates to cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides of the invention or produced by the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Keith Lowe, Rebecca Cahoon, Christopher Scelonge, Yumin Tao, William Gordon-Kamm, Wesley Bruce, Lisa Newman
  • Publication number: 20050144665
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for identifying a genetically modified plant cell comprising a recombinase-mediated exchange between a first nucleotide sequence and a second nucleotide sequence. The present invention provides a method for obtaining a genetically modified plant cell wherein a functional recombination at both the 5? and 3? ends of the nucleotide can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: William Gordon-Kamm, L. Lyznik, Christopher Scelonge, Theodore Klein
  • Patent number: 6486382
    Abstract: A method for the production of transgenic plants is provided in which a vector carrying a gene encoding the green fluorescent protein is introduced into cells, the cells are screened for the protein and transformed cells are selected and regenerated. The cellular toxicity of the green fluorescent protein is circumvented by regulating expression of the gene encoding the protein or directing the protein to a subcellular compartment where it is not toxic to the cell. DNA constructs are provided for cell transformation in which the expression of a gene encoding the green fluorescent protein is placed under the control of an inducible promoter. In addition, DNA constructs are provided in which a nucleotide sequence encoding the green fluorescent protein is operably linked to a signal sequence which directs the expressed protein to a subcellular compartment where the protein is not toxic to the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Gordan-Kamm, Dorothy A. Pierce, Benjamin Bowen, Dennis Bidney, Margit Ross, Christopher Scelonge, Michael D. Miller, Gary Sandahl, Lijuan Wang